Hung Truong: The Blog!

I saw a Facebook Poll late last night that a friend had voted on.

I just “announced” a little web app that I've been developing off and on called “Instascriber.”

Continuing in my tradition of winning contests that I entered with very little expectation of actually winning, I got an email a week or two back about the University of Michigan 2010 Mobile Apps Competition that I entered in November.

I recently flew into the Detroit airport McNamara Terminal, and I made an observation that most of my fellow travelers probably made as well.

I just got an Android phone, the HTC Hero, to play around with and perhaps develop on.

It's January, which means it's time for really misinformed predictions that will just look silly in hindsight!

Looking back at 2010, this year has been one of change and growth for me.

Last week I took a train out to visit Chicago for a meeting with my favorite company, Threadless!

Yesterday I printed out some fun cactus holiday cards and today I put them on Etsy.

I'm currently working on an app in Google App Engine that polls feeds periodically and then does stuff with them.

Today my newest app was approved for the App Store (and should be propagating quickly)!

I've been working on a new app (I'll write more about it in a week or so), part of which required opening a user's Twitter client with a pre-populated tweet or opening Twitter on a particular user's profile for easy following.

I've been busy printing random stuff on my letterpress.

Today I decided to have the Apple “Back to Mac” keynote stream while working on other stuff.

Ever since I signed up for Facebook, I've wanted a clean and easy way to export the content that my friends and I create on it.

I finally got the rollers for my letterpress machine yesterday, so I tried printing something.

As I wrote earlier, I really like letterpress stuff.

Foursquare just released a new version of its iPhone app.

I've got some more thoughts on iAd after trying iAd out on one of my apps for about a month now.

I finally heard about Quora enough times (I suppose I reached my contagion threshold) to make a profile for it a week or so ago, and I ended up exploring it in depth today.

Just about two weeks ago, I released my first paid iPhone app, Checkmate.

My second iPhone app, Checkmate, just got approved in the Apple App Store last night.

Like a good data nerd, I downloaded the list of publicly available Facebook names, dumped into text files.

I recently read an essay by Paul Graham on what happened to Yahoo.

A few months ago, when I was living in Seattle, I went with my .gf and friend to a tour of Theo Chocolate.

I submitted a panel proposal to SXSW again this year entitled “Quitters Always Prosper: The Iterative Career Process.”

My Anime Nano iPhone app was just approved again for the app store.

I went to see Ingrid Michaelson with my .gf at The Ark in Ann Arbor on August 9th, 2010.

I got this spam in my email box from Pizza Hut India: I did not realize there were Pizza Huts in India.

So I was searching for Angry Birds on iTunes in order to get the link for it.

Because Guile's theme goes with everything, I made a ringtone, which I'm currently using on my iPhone.

I switched my blog theme again.

After reading this article on the upcoming iAd release, I have a few thoughts on the future of Apple's mobile advertising platform. iAds on Apple devices will be rich media experiences, they'll stay in the app, and they'll make developers tons of money.

I just bought Civ IV on Steam, because there's some kind of sale.

About two weeks ago, my GF got a refurbished iPod Touch from the Apple online store.

Rework, a book by 37signals (the guys who made Ruby on Rails), is a pretty simple book.

So we put an Apple Store in your App Store so you can buy iPhones on your iPhone.

I have just learned that there is a Marmaduke movie.

I went to the bank yesterday to fix a $12 fee that shouldn't have been there.

I received an advance copy of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.

A while ago, I found “Openbook,” a frontend to Facebook's own search APIs that expose status updates from people who have them set to be public.

I just got this ad while shopping at Amazon.

My first iPhone application has been approved and is “ready for sale” in the Apple App Store!

I use Olark (formerly Hab.la) on my portfolio site.

SXSW just posted their audio recording of the Student Startups panel that I moderated!

Something that is usually on my mind, either in the forefront or the back of it, is data portability.

I had a dream last night that me and my Mom won a trip to Mars.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about work, passion, fulfillment, etc.

I had some vegetable broth left over in the fridge because I made some green chile cheese enchiladas (which kind of turned out badly).

I had a conversation with someone about how I still have a blog, and that it's totally old school to write one.